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• ‘What more fun can you have in a field?’: the bin painters of Glastonbury

  20-06-2022 19:00
  
  Each Glastonbury festival, an estimated 17,000 bins are painted to brighten up the site. We meet the warm, ragtag community of artists who make it happenAt the end of May each festival year, Holly Larkin arrives at Worthy Farm to find a vast, rusting pile of metal bins, and starts to feel excited.She leads a team of about 90 volunteer bin painters, all of whom travel to the Glastonbury festival site to spend two weeks painting an estimated 17,000 bins, all taken from a gigantic pile that is so v
  
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• ‘I’m appalled’: The artist who put up a giant sign for refugees at sea to read

  20-06-2022 09:00
  
  Nathan Coley has erected an illuminated sign facing out to sea at Newhaven, Sussex – which went up the day the government’s Rwanda plan for refugees was announced. How will the locals react?Perched above the west promenade in Newhaven, as visible to refugees out at sea as it is to dogwalkers strolling along the front, is a huge message written in bright fairground lights, held aloft by a scaffold five metres high. “You imagine what you desire,” says the text sculpture, on
  
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• Blaze review – Del Kathryn Barton’s feature film debut will take your breath away

  20-06-2022 04:31
  
  In an audaciously crafted work from the Archibald-winning artist, a young girl takes solace in her imagination after witnessing a rape and murderGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastVisualising an emotional response such as trauma is tremendously difficult: there’s no rulebook, no codes and conventions, no set formula through which it can be achieved. Two-time Archibald-winning painter Del Kathryn Barton, who is well practised in creating symbolic works full
  
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